The system is not new but 2 years old. It is a laptop with built in speakers.

I am not too much into m*ltim*dia. But I like to listen to lectures from time to time and you can only understand the speaker when sitting directly in front of the laptop and turning everything to the max.
I had this problem b4 - with sidux once. But it resolved. As stated above I am not a frequent user of this kind of outputdevice.